“Obscuring the light IS obscuring the idea...As our society constantly reshapes our idea of a relationship to the sun, the light of the sun and its effect changes our lifestyle and the choices we make. As our social, economical, and ecological practices change over time our idea of our relationship with the sun changes as well. This view of light and our relationship to light is cyclical with the sun. Just as we alter our environment and our connection to light, nature’s relationship is also altered and changed due to our existence and choices. Therefore us metaphorically obscuring the light is obscuring the idea. This is what keeps us from true cultural and practical change in regards to protecting and sustaining our environment. Because society constantly reshapes our idea of the natural world, we are also subjected to a spiritual shift as well. Within the day to day of our modern and technological culture, we are further and further away from nature itself. Yet we constantly read about the studies concluding that nature is the answer to many of our issues, even doctors prescribing time in nature to patients. It is this paradigm shift, this fight between blue screen light vs sunlight, that keeps us from a developed understanding and elevated sense of importance of natural light in our lives. Spiritually there is a co-dependency between light and water because life depends on both of these elements. Now it is just the question of how this becomes more common place within our social, economical, and environmental constructs to help us honor and project the natural world.In regards to this concept within the pieces of this exhibition, the materials help reverberate light and nature. The resin found within the lightbulbs is a petrochemical by product suspending hand tied fishing lures, refracting light through a man made material in a miniature ecosystem suspended with fabricated white flowers. The suspension of the spiritual color with my signature sculptures serves as a dialogue that we face within ourselves and as a society as mentioned previously in the concept. By having them suspended from the ceiling, the viewer is engulfed within the pieces while also being able to move within the sculpture itself, seeing a different perspective with each step aided by the colors and light from the projections.The faucet pieces help depict the daily use of natural resources and if we are conscious or unconscious of the way we use or abuse them in our own lives. The pyramid shape in the hanging of these works bring about a waterfall effect that exhibits the trickle down effect of our impact on the environment while the projections help note the way nature responds to our actions.”